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Working with Consultants
A fact sheet on working with consultants. Includes considerations before hiring, tips for working with a consultant, and evaluation.
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles (based on the book Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity) walks through the various stages of a nonprofit lifecyle and helps organizations determine where they fall.
Sample Organizational Climate Survey
An organizational climate survey measures an organization's strengths and areas for improvement on several levels: pertaining to the organization, each work department, and specific jobs/roles. Adapt this sample to conduct a survey of your organization.
Innovation Network
Innovation Network provides program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and web-based tools to nonprofits and funders across geographic and programmatic boundaries. The organization works to make evaluation accessible to all nonprofits, so they have the knowledge and skills to manage and improve their work.
Theory of Change & Evaluation Planning: Logic Model Workbook
A commonly-used tool, the logic model graphically depicts your program, initiative, project, or even the sum total of all of your organization’s work.
Evaluation and Measurement of Outcomes
The National Council of Nonprofits has compiled resources and tools for evaluation and measurement of outcomes to help your nonprofit better evaluate your work, measure outcomes and success, and communicate impact.
Economic Impact: A New Approach for Proving Outcomes
Measuring economic impact is an often overlooked way to define, measure, and communicate your nonprofit's value.
Basic Guide to Outcomes-Based Evaluation
Basic Guide to Outcomes-Based Evaluation provides guidance for basic planning and implementation of an outcomes-based evaluation process for nonprofits, especially small organizations with limited resources.
Personal Cultural Competency Assessment
Short assessments to gauge personal cultural competency between personnel and in programs for nonprofit clients.
Sample Volunteer Program Assessment Survey
The easiest and least expensive way to assess a program is through surveying methods. Use Charity Village's Volunteer Program Survey and Assessment to evaluate your volunteer program.
Measuring Fundraising Return on Investment and the Impact of Wealth Intelligence
In WealthEngine's second edition of this report, they provide an in-depth exploration of how to measure, implement and assess ROI within fundraising.